In a USA TODAY/Pew Research Center Poll, most Americans say the NSA leaker should be prosecuted, but two-thirds don’t like the idea the U.S. government is collecting their own communication records.
How could this be true? Are we a nation of complacent idiots?
When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government’s collection of Americans’ phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a
An interview worth listening to / watching
I had a little time to kill and recorded a much more technically complicated song to play. This one is probably my favorite bass line from the entire Muse Catalog. Muse - Hysteria. There’s some dead air at the beginning because I played the last few seconds of the track before it when I was playing along since the track starts with the bass line on the album (but I omitted that when I overlaid the original audio track). Run through my Digitech BP355 and my Tascam 122MK-II. Recorded and remixed (poorly) with Garage Band ;)
Was the program he exposed legal and constitutional? Was its classification legal? And was he exposing government deceit? By Bruce Schneier.
I found this to be an excellent read.
NYT columnist David Brooks is an idiot: “He betrayed our privacy,” Brooks writes about the man who leaked evidence of the NSA’s secret and sweeping surveillance program. You have got to be kidding me.
(via boingboing)
not much I can add to that.
started migrating some of my data onto a new raid last night so I can rebuild some of my file server. amazon selling 4 TB SATA drives for ~160 apiece right now for anyone who is interested. The copy going right now will likely take another 12-16 hours I think.
apatheticghost asked: hi!!! sorry to bother you but i was just wondering how (or, where) you downloaded ios7 early? i'm really interested in trying out the beta and i would really love to know just how to do that. thanks so much!
if you’re a member of the ios developer program there are images that you can download right on the member center.
I got iOS7 installed on my iPhone 5 this evening. I’m definitely interested in where this is going. I think it feels a lot nicer than the last versions I’ve used, but I will have to muck with it for a few days before I really know. Already I see one application that’s broken - Tilt To Live. should be interesting to see if people put out updates that make their apps work on iOS7 over the next few weeks
I am product of the 70s and 80s (which probably explains my tastes). I play bass guitar and write code for Linux and OS X. I live in Massachusetts near Cape Cod in a log cabin in the woods with a 150 megabit internet connection. This blog contains random things about playing music, writing code, systems monitoring, hacking on electronics, and more. My Flickr account has a lot more photos and screenshots in it also.
